A Medical Marijuana Law in Dade County Could Help Many Patients

Unless a Miami resident has personally experienced or lived with someone with a disease, condition or affliction, he or she has no understanding as to the true benefits that a medical marijuana law in FL would have on ailing people’s lives. Medicinal cannabis has been since the ancient Egyptian times and has been documented in Chinese writings dating back over two thousand years. Up until 1937, physicians in the United States frequently gave their patients medical marijuana for a number of afflictions. This is true of physicians in FL, too.

There are hundreds of illnesses, diseases and conditions that would potentially help FL residents with it they had access to medical marijuana. Some of these include:

Acquired Hypothyroidism

Acute Gastritis

Agoraphobia

AIDS

Alzheimer’s Disease

Angina Pectoris

Anorexia Nervosa

Anxiety Disorders

Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease

Arthritis

ADD and ADHD

Autism

Autoimmune Diseases

Back Pain

Bell’s Palsy

Bipolar Disorder

Brain Tumors

Bulimia

Cancer

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Cerebral Palsy

Cervical Disk Disease

Chemotherapy Symptoms

Chronic Pain

Crohn’s Disease

Cystic Fibrosis

Diabetes

Diverticulitis

Epilepsy

Felty’s Syndrome

Fibromyalgia

Glaucoma

Graves Disease

Migraines

Hemophilia

Hepatitis

HIV

Hospice Patients

Huntington’s Disease

Hypertension

Insomnia

Intractable Vomiting

Leukemia

Lipomatosis

Lou Gehrig’s Disease

Lyme’s Disease

Lymphoma

Major Depression

Mania

Multiple Sclerosis

Muscular Dystrophy

Night Terrors

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Panic Disorder

Parkinson’s Disease

Peripheral Neuropathy

Post-Polio Syndrome

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Prostatitis

Pulmonary Fibrosis

Quadriplegia

Radiation Therapy

Raynaud’s Disease

Restless Leg Syndrome

Schizoaffective Disorder

Schizophrenia

Seizures

Severe Nausea

Skeletal Muscular Spasticity

Sleep Apnea

Spasticity

Spinal Stenosis

Sturge-Weber Syndrome

Temporomandibular Joint Disorder

Terminal Illnesses

Tietze’s Syndrome

Tinnitus

Tourette’s Syndrome

Trichotillomania

Wasting Syndrome

Of course, there are many, many medical and psychological disorders that can be helped by allowing the patients to use some form of medical marijuana in Florida. This list was in no way, shape or form a complete list of symptoms that can be assuaged by allowing patients access to medical marijuana.

Medical Cannabis in Miami

Many Dade County residents automatically think that every patient is going to be smoking cannabis however; many treatments with medical marijuana merely come in the form of an oil that is taken orally. Much of the “bad stuff” is not in the cannabis that has been cultivated for medicinal purposes. Medical marijuana is highly regulated and more than likely, should the FL medical marijuana law be passed in FL it would also be monitored and regulated too.

There are many rigorous tests that must be completed before the cannabis is considered to be the quality needed to be labeled medical marijuana. These tests help to insure the safety of the cannabis that will be used by patients in Florida. That is, if the FL medical marijuana law is passed during the General Election in November of 2014.